William Harry Coleman Cooke: Extract from de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, volume 2, part 5, page 36
Cooke, William Harry Coleman, Captain, 1st Garrison Battalion, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry attached 2nd/6th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry Born Ashbourne, Derbyshire Killed in action 1st September 1918 aged 32 Son of Joseph and Jessie Cooke; husband of Ethel Maude Cooke, of 102, Clay Street, Stapenhill, Burton on Trent. Born at Ashbourne, Derbyshire. Also served in South African Campaign Buried in St. Venant Communal Cemetery, IV, A, 20
1911 Census A bank clerk Boarding at the home of Thomas Henry Wynn, an insurance canvasser and collector, of 89, Scalpcliffe Road, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire
Cooke, William Harry Coleman, Captain, 1st Garrison Battalion, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry attached 2nd/6th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry
Born Ashbourne, Derbyshire
Killed in action 1st September 1918 aged 32
Son of Joseph and Jessie Cooke; husband of Ethel Maude Cooke, of 102, Clay Street, Stapenhill, Burton on Trent. Born at Ashbourne, Derbyshire. Also served in South African Campaign
Buried in St. Venant Communal Cemetery, IV, A, 20
1911 Census
A bank clerk
Boarding at the home of Thomas Henry Wynn, an insurance canvasser and collector, of 89, Scalpcliffe Road, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire
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